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Florin Moldoveanu wrote on Jul. 31, 2014 @ 03:00 GMT

Got the idea, but the talk was too long, the words should not be broken at the end of a line in a slide presentation, and there was way too much wishful thinking and handwaving.

What is the wavefunction of the universe? Nobody knows.

What is consciousness? Nobody can define it precisely.

Good try. Much more rigorous math is needed for this to be remotely taken seriously.